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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Hôtel de Crillon is located at the foot of what famous street?
(a) Boulevard Haussmann
(b) The Rue de Rennes
(c) The Champs-Élysées
(d) The Rue de Passy

2. How would you describe the narrator of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”?
(a) It is related from a first-person, limited narrator
(b) It is related from a first-person, omniscient narrator
(c) It is related from a third-person, omniscient narrator
(d) It is related from a third-person, limited narrator

3. Who is described in a flashback of Christmas day as having “flown across the lines to bomb the Austrian officers' leave train, machine-gunning them as they scattered and ran”?
(a) Compton
(b) Barker
(c) Williamson
(d) Julian

4. Who is described in Harry’s flashback as having “lost it all” while playing cards by lantern light during a blizzard at the mountain huts by Schrunz?
(a) Herr Williamson
(b) Herr Julian
(c) Herr Lent
(d) Herr Hans

5. Where does the narrator say Harry “had been happiest in the good time of his life”?
(a) London
(b) Wyoming
(c) New York
(d) Africa

Short Answer Questions

1. In one of Harry’s flashbacks, he recalls talking to a member of the Kaiser Jägers above the saw-mill about the attack on Perticara and where?

2. How long ago was it that Harry scratched himself, leading ultimately to his current condition?

3. Of Harry, the narrator says in the beginning of the story, “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until” when?

4. Of Harry, the narrator says, “It was not so much that he lied as that” what?

5. Many claim that the Dada movement began where?

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